Took the two RZR's over to Slickford, Ky. and met up with some great folks and rode over 50 miles of some of the best trails in the country. The North Cumberland Trails are located on the Ky/Tn border.
The weather was picture perfect for the entire weekend so we took full advantage of it.
Some great Overlooks on these trails. We took in three different ones today and the clear blue skies made it a sight to behold.
No tourists here, cause you need a healthy 4x4 just to get to these spots.
And after you drive your 4x4 as far as you can go on the ridge top you walk a short distance to the overlook.
Carefully crossing over some rock crevices using these homemade bridges.
Our new found friend "Lonnie" made these a few years ago so his wife could accompany him on these spectacular rides.
This Overlook is called the "Tea Cup", a great place to stop for lunch.
It features some of the most unusual rock formations you can imagine.
This one looks like God just welded a wavy piece of granite on top of a round limestone rock.
It's about 500 feet straight down on the other side of this rock ledge.
Not a place for the faint of heart or those who are afraid of heights.
So now it's time to hit the trails again and see if we can fine the old "Hippy Cabin".
Austin is ready to get rollin', this boy loves to find the deepest mud holes on the trail.
Well, we found the "Hippy Cabin". As the story goes, back in the sixties a group of hippies moved into these hills and built three cabins and a bath house. All are still standing but have been ransacked over the years. Only 6 or 7 years ago they still had the doors and windows in them.
The second story is a lookout tower, they raised their own Pot in these hills and lived a Commune Lifestyle.
They stayed until the Vietnam War was over and moved back to California. Guess they didn't like the Army's Draft System so they moved to the hills.
We found this "Jewel" about five miles down the trail.
It is the largest of the two Natural Bridges we have found. It sits about 200 feet from the trail and would be hard to spot unless you knew where it was due to the thick foliage.
This is probably the most Awe Inspiring part of the trip.
This Natural Beauty is not a tourist spot. Only a narrow walking path leads back to where this picture was taken. A camera just can't capture the beauty and the huge gorge below the bridge.
Another interesting stop along the way is "Grannie's Crack". It's sort of a cross between a natural bridge and a cave.
After entering thru this opening you go down onto the floor of a huge room with a deep sand floor, looking up you see a crevice opening called (yeah, you guessed it). and then out the other side through another opening that is bigger than this one.
So, is it a cave or a bridge?
Met up with some other folks over at the "Car-Hauler Bridge". Lots of excitement here, watching these 4x4's try to climb the hill up to the bridge.
Seems several years ago someone wanted to link two trails together so they could move between mountains easier so they brought in an old car hauler trailer and set it between two huge rock ledges with a log-crawler and a winch setup.
Over the years it has become a hot spot for avid 4 wheelers to challenge their skills.
Just a few miles off the Trail is this big cave, although on private property and not part of the trails our good buddy Lonnie knows the land owner and allowed us to visit this site.
The opening is small but it opens up into a huge room and some say it goes for miles but has never been mapped.
The temperature down in the cave is a constant 57 degrees year around.
Can't you just see the Indians using some of these spots for shelter and hunting trips.
Seems it's time to get these buggies cleaned up and ready for the next adventure.
No telling where we will go next. Rumor has it Windrock, Tenessee is our next trip. Taking the girls with us on this one.
After that, it's Brimstone in September for the Polaris "Camp RZR" Rally. Should be a lot of fun, Dirks Bently in concert and lots of trail riding......